video for your media. free media. the victims of a suicide bombing and attack the lives of six people describing a scene of carnage. at the center. of the. war in condemning the. casualties are nothing short of crimes against humanity. in one of the richest countries of the world. being left out in the cold. with closure.

thanks for joining us here on our to this morning it's now at nine am in moscow. your top headlines for this. three days of mourning have been declared in the russian city of volgograd after a suicide bombing aboard a packed bus and witnesses describe a nightmarish scene of. bloodied survivors left in shock unable to understand exactly what happened. on this ride here good morning to you we're getting reports of just horrific injuries when it comes to dealing with the aftermath of this how the survivors and the city for that matter coping.

well the city itself is on a heightened state of alert right now with investigators still on the scene combing the scene and the bus that remains standing behind me for clues to put this piece of this pieces of the puzzle together now at the scene here six people lost their lives forty three were injured many of them very critically injured local hospitals were inundated with very severe injuries witnesses say it just looked like a war zone severed limbs and severe burdens everywhere they looked many of these people were sent to moscow for more intensive treatment as i said the city is on a heightened state of alert for fear of a possible second attack and the the investigation is still ongoing here at the scene investigators arrived with the first light of day and they're now actually breaking through rubble on the side of the of the bus to see if they can find anything that would give them more clues as to what happened and why. the city

being honest in a state of a heightened alert possible fears for a second attack the police are there as you say also you mentioned about the victims being taken to hospitals north of volgograd but also here in moscow the loved ones of the bombing gone says this point do we know exactly what happened on the bus. well that investigator has told r t that a woman believed to be responsible for this blast aboard the bus. yesterday afternoon the device a device was detonated at the back of the bus and the call first call into emergency came at around two pm local time and the device remnants that were found at the scene were in a t.n.t. and shrapnel. the ukraine did a lot of havoc on this very busy street but we. the witness who happened upon it just moments after the blast took place let's head listen to what that just said.

there were many ambulances and police around people getting out of their cars to help they were pulling people out of the bus giving them water sharing their first aid kits what shocks me is that there was one woman still inside the bus sat all covered in blood and i couldn't tell whether she was dead or alive the bus route starts at the city's heart center and also passes near the university so the bus was full of heart patients and students one of the theories has been going around is the possibility this attack may have been intended for moscow have you heard anything about that. that's right in fact investigators tell us that the woman responsible most likely for this bombing is thirty year old from dagestan her name what i see all of the suspected bomber was

a career she modest and in fact there's three others who were hope conspirators in a plot to attack moscow two that were banned from dagestan both wanted for twin terrorist attacks there in may of two thousand and twelve and the other the fourth component is that in this is a man named to be true self a lawyer who actually went missing a while ago and his family was searching for him apparently he became a see all of us boyfriend converted to islam and his parents actually went on russian television looking for him at the states back as far as july two thousand and twelve so he's on the run police are obviously after him he was actually headed to moscow as well to help carry out whatever attack was planned there so here at the scene investigators are still very closely at what happened to find out any more answers they can into why this tragedy took place all right the very latest there on this bus bombing in volgograd with lindsay france thank you. now we spoke

to alexandra dahmer in an expert on international terrorism and a visiting lecturer at several u.s. universities he says a terror of this sort is a global concern it's not just a regional matter. i can tell you that you know we're dealing with this kind of a terrorist international we cannot divide what's happening in america in boston or nickel a home a city in the ninety five well we can separate it from what has just happened in volgograd or from what happened in there all of the just several weeks ago we seem boat and this is their own fortunate and we need to deal with it this is something you know about happens on the kind of irregular basis this is not first time in this is not the last time but once again on the way in the same boat and unlike just several years that you went ahead with school and you know this expression one person's terrorist is another person's freedom fighter i can see it now. no matter

what if somebody is added to the russians the russian government will have a terrorist attacks in russia this is a terrorist attack not just that against the russian people it's against this is a terrorist attack against everybody. seem is collecting and publishing all the latest for you on a terror attack in volgograd extensive background including the i.d.'s of those are legit about you can get those details right now at a party dot com. the meantime here on the program amnesty international is accusing the u.s. of committing war crimes through its drone program in pakistan a report from the human rights organization lists recent incidents and says there's an almost complete absence of transparency the activists to challenge the obama administration to prove that a star really investigated all cases of unlawful killings though they could be an awful lot to look at that's give you some details here on r.t. the program began in two thousand and four under that of the bush administration

then as we move on to two thousand and six ultimately the deadliest year in his presidency almost one hundred civilians killed then but since two thousand and eight with the use of drones unpack. than has clearly escalated reaching a peak after barack obama was sworn into office in two thousand and nine that year sore one hundred sixty seven people killed it wasn't even considered to be militants the next twelve months so of obama's administration saw a wreck or the number of strikes a total of one hundred twenty two so far the program continues to take the lives of many innocent people so we can see that the lion's share of drone strikes actually carried out by the obama administration over a thousand civilians have been killed at least two hundred of them being children and the total number of deaths is is more than three thousand people more details as keeps and more details here on r.t. from correspondent lucy calf. the predator drone remotely controlled and heavily armed it's the weapon of choice in the cia's

undeclared war in pakistan that's where the u.s. is believed to have launched more than three hundred strikes since two thousand and four the target suspected taliban and al qaeda militants the white house says better drones then boots on the ground and justifies the covert program as both affective and legal america does not take strikes to punish individuals we act against terrorists who pose a continuing and imminent threat to the american people not so according to amnesty international and a damning new report the human rights group warns u.s. drone strikes could amount to war crimes documents recent killings in pakistan's northwest tribal areas and the lack of transparency surrounding drones this is a secret program in fact in our case we've found at least in some cases they've clearly killed civilians and some of these cases might be war crimes that really concerns us one such case is that of sixty eight year old man nama bibi killed by

a u.s. drone last october she was picking vegetables with her grandchildren when that attacks took place a double strike the children miraculously survived. first it was so then i heard that. the first hit and the second hit my cousin. what her grandmother's body was pulverized these missile fragments are all that remain amnesty documents other such cases but its main point the need for transparency and accountability the u.s. must explain why these people have been killed people who are clearly civilians must provide justice to these people compensation it must investigate those responsible for those killings the u.s. continues to give very little public information about the drone program but it will face more international pressure later this week that is because on friday the u.n. general assembly will be debating the use of remotely piloted aircraft now in

a separate report a u.n. investigation looked at thirty three drone strikes around the world not just in pakistan that violated international humanitarian law and also resulted in hundreds of civilian casualties that report also calling for more transparency and accountability from the united states reporting from moscow i'm lucy catherine of and here at r.t. we spoke to the head of the south asia program mr international a poly truscott all about the specifics of the report and whether the u.s. government is even aware of it is what she had to say. what we have done is conduct painstaking research into a specific time period in pakistan where u.s. has carried out drone strikes and that's very recent eighteen months in a very particular part of the country in north waziristan this is one of the most neglected remote areas of the world. ordinary residents suffer abuse from groups also disappearances and torture which is detention for the pakistan armed forces on

top of that out of the skies. they are being attacked by u.s. drone strikes. in some cases it appears that some of those some of the killings have been unlawful that amount to extradition executions or war crimes we contacted the u.s. government in advance of our report being published. they referred us cia referred us to the white house and the white house referred us to u.s. president barack obama's speech on may twenty third team which made promises of transparency we've seen little change to date and i could have you with us here in our to today still to come in the program america's homeless shelters filling up with the yesterday's middle class jobs. and not just working five days a week and still not having a place called the biggest of america's war is drastically changing that story for

me. also to come washington falls out with age old ally fronds the historic friendship undermined by the latest n.s.a. spy scandal and all suggesting millions of french had their phones are tapped that's coming up after the break. they are not talking about language at all but i will only react to situations i have read the reports and like. to know i will be. let's take a comment on your letter play safe. secure yellow cards on the docket no. thank you no more weasel words when you veda direct question and he prepared for a change when you thought you should be ready for a. freedom of speech and slid down the freedom to.

live rightly to see. the search string. and i would think that your. reporters twitter. and instagram live. to be on the list. it's tuesday morning here in moscow you're watching artsy thanks for joining us today us homeless shelters are struggling to accommodate the growing number of poor americans the face of the average tenant there was certainly been changing over the past few years and of sometimes even a full time job doesn't mean you can afford a place to live at this report's wattis marina portnoy. the working poor have

become among america's fastest growing demographic. charmaine works full time as a telephone data collector i make about two fifty a week depending on the hours that i work and many days the thirty year old eats a free dinner at the new york city rescue mission before heading to the place she's called home for the past five years i come here to eat at the mission then jump on the train get back to the shelter for curfew at eight o'clock if you don't make it back to the shelter at eight o'clock they've already packed up your clothes a record high of fifty thousand people currently occupying new york city's shelters of those living in them city figures show twenty eight percent of families and sixteen percent of adults are employed the jobs are not paying you what there should be paying you first and everything is the prices are just up on everything. you know it's just not affordable at all in two thousand and eleven forty six

percent of new yorkers were considered either poor or almost poor the income gap in america's richest city is comparable to those of some sub-saharan african countries we see people come in somewhat maybe embarrassed or ashamed or hardworking they didn't have to ask for him now but now to the day if you can put food on the table for your family where you can do in an effort to how supply meet demand the new york city rescue mission recently began a run of the nations to expand its space from three floors to six next year twice the amount of people being brought in twice the amount of beds will be provided to the hungry and homeless many of whom are working americans former u.s. president jimmy carter has spent three decades promoting and building affordable homes he says america's income inequality is causing members of today's middle class to resemble those who lived in poverty when he was in office in the late

seventy's compared to when i left the white house the difference is twice as great as it was between the richest people and for charmaine was once a freelance makeup artist for revlon and vantage to cosmetics store life changed following the financial crisis of two thousand and eight when she lost her job so when she hears today u.s. officials brag about an economic recovery they're saying it but they don't really take a look at it because it's not true i see more people struggling out here and they're working and they're on welfare and it still can't make it leaving millions struggling to find opportunity in the land that always promised it marina port ny r.t. new york. and star wars becomes a reality for japan and it's not in the galaxy very far away tokyo is planning to send its first into all but to shoot down some asteroids all in the big. details on that right now dot com. on the russian or sibling of santa clause for

a moment later stage of the torch relay and read more on the sporting symbols boston voyage at r.t. dot com right now. in the meantime though here on the program in the international arena sometimes even best friends do fall out but historic alliance between powers and washington doesn't stop president calling his american counterpart to condemn allegations of a huge n.s.a. spy network in france. reports on the escalating eavesdropping scandal is certainly not happy with the latest revelations from n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden's leaks and the interior minister calling all of this shocking and unacceptable especially the extent to which the spying was happening in a report that was a published in the limo newspaper it says that between december tenth two thousand and twelve an eighth of january twenty third thirteen the n.s.a.

recorded some seventy point three million phone calls in france and what has angered authorities even more is the fact that it's allegedly not just terror suspects remember this is the justification for the practice in the first place but also politicians and businessmen and some government officials and the fact that it's reportedly a systematic recording of targets communications a very similar reaction that you see coming from another country a high level call the nation of the embassies actions coming from mexico which alleges that the n.s.a. also had hacked into the e-mail over to the president felipe calderon you know two thousand and ten now we know that the u.s. director for national intelligence has been defending the legality of these practices but certainly it has not stopped these diplomatic rolls from happening we've seen a reaction coming from individual entities across europe here and other countries that say for example in germany telecom has been pushing to have all of the data communication just limited. local german service in order to stop spying from

outside specifically the united states and also brazil had planned on having a secure e-mail service also to thwart spies but on a broader scale be you with set to sign a vote on a new regulation essentially bans any transfer of the data from e.u. member states to the united states in reaction to all of this is the first major move really after the edward snowden leaks and also it would hope to subject a large a us or foreign corporations a swell of social media providers to follow laws or say seventy five's numbering in the billions as has been reported so we are seeing backlash from all levels even up to the highest levels here in europe against the n.s.a.'s activities and the us has now entered a damage control mode with france with obama promising he'll work to resolve the spy row but american political cartoonist and ted roll he believes the damage had been done. it's pretty hard to under you listening to tens of millions of phone

calls isn't it at this point i think what's shocking the french is not just the extent to which the united states is spying on their people but also the fact that they consider themselves to be u.s. allies and if this is the way the u.s. treats its friends well what's the point of being a friend this creates tension between two countries that like to think of themselves as allies and it's it's difficult for for the french to know exactly to what extent what they're doing is being listened to watched spied upon so you know it it's hard to be friends with people you don't trust. quite quickly to some other global headlines in brief starting with brazil where protesters clashed with police outside a beachfront hotel in rio or an auction there to develop an offshore oil field was being held striking workers in unions invaded the area despite tight security

police though disperse them with rubber bullets and tear gas. and plans to decontaminate the area around japan's fukushima nuclear plant has been delayed for another three years in recent months the facility has experienced several leaks of the toxic water used to cool the reactor it was just on sunday that contaminated water overflowed a barrier due to heavy rain still more than ninety thousand people unable to return to their homes. and in nevada middle school student has killed a teacher and wounded two other students before killing himself at the two injured were immediately hospitalized one of them in a serious condition the shooting took place in the morning as children were gathering for class the teacher reportedly tried to intervene and drew fire from the arm and boy of the name of the age of the shooter not released. now more than thirty billion pounds are expected to be carved out of the u.k.'s welfare

budget by twenty sixteen and with government child protection agencies struggling with their workload subsidized companies are being left to pick up the slack but as our laura smith reports many of these two could be forced to close their doors leaving the nation's most vulnerable with nowhere to turn these are the children of kids company one in five has been shot at all stabbed hot have witnessed shootings or stabbings in the last year the lucky ones come to camilla batmanglij is charity to be pieced back together these children in one of the richest countries of the world are living in a type of war zone that is on estates so they see people stepped outside their window they're afraid of firearms they go up on the staircase in their state they don't know who's around the corner who's going to attack them they get trapped in lifts and get raped and so on children like that says camilla without the right

help become incredibly violent taking their revenge on themselves or on society by sixteen florence was a homeless drug and alcohol abuse she grew up in turn ignored and casually abused by her mother. tried to take me away from my parents. i remember fully i heard my mom hit me with a tree branch or something outside of school and my teacher saw one of us he called social services. and then i don't know i think i cried i'm sorry in the me and when they were like checking me and i said i want to stay at home and never have. i call childline in school forced me to call child line because their lives or burns on the inside. and then nothing happened after that conversation only kids company pursued florence texting and phoning to make sure she was ok over a period of nearly a year a continuity of care that traumatized youngsters desperately need and getting from

the government child mental health and children's social services hasn't changed since the victorian times we renew our railways we renew our airports we renew our hospitals but actually we haven't bothered to renew you really this structure that deal with almost one rouble kids and make them fit for purpose repeated requests for a government response to that yielded nothing about his company i probably would have five kids. instead twenty four florence is a graduate of oxford university articulate intelligent and ready to help the next generation but reckons a million traumatized children from estates like the are going without any kind of help from an overstretched social services and still she has to beg for funding so now kids company can keep its doors open to help more vulnerable young people but

for how long in eighteen months the government's again threatening to cut it off without a penny nor a smith. so should britain follow the advice of its financial chancellor and be more like china. discussing the possible motivations are in the thirty. preview. for god's point says second great britain must rediscover its can do attitude chancellor dismisses suggestions that china has a sweatshop economy and wishes britain would be more like the communist country yeah well you know he wants brits to work for lower wages that's why the bank of england said they're going to keep interest rates low in so employment goes higher that means that they want wages to trend lower to be on a par with china so that you have everyone employed but making subsistence wages

used to be here subsistence farming used to be the rigueur economic model here in britain under the lords and ladies and kings and queens of the feudal period now they wish to return to that as part of neo feudalism so george osborne can be piggly wiggly georgie porgie putting him up on his throne making all sides of commandments all day long and not doing jack nothing. my scars are at a seven thirty am g.m.t. but for now a heartwarming story about love knowing no boundaries the documentary in just a moment. it seems like politicians can get away with anything nowadays but not all of them the former mayor of field detroit has been sentenced to twenty years in prison

after being found guilty of committing record tiering conspiracy fraud extortion and tax crimes while the mayor the prosecutor say he funneled millions of dollars to himself and family members all while detroit moved headstrong towards the bankrupt state it is in today this is big news not because some mayor took bribes but because he got punished the judge you could fix him stated why this is such an important case she said at the very least significant a. difficult sentence will send a message that this kind of conduct will not be tolerated yes sending a message you see corrupt officials are usually cowards and they do what they do because they feel they can get away with it when you start to put the fear of god into them they start to behave much better so the question is will the mainstream media grab the story and really use the conviction of detroit's former mayor as an example probably not but it would really help the country if they would but that's just my opinion. germany's finance ministry as the nie report that is preparing

a third bailout for greece. of course not no there will be no third ballot for greece. last this is the age of the belive by the time this is over the bandit's banks and brokers will take in all that you've got no dollar euro will be left behind and inflation deflation a conversation will take every last nickel and dime. telling us how dare you. and what's your name. since i was born i haven't been able to walk at all my body was slowly changing my spine was curving my ribs were tightening well i guess you can see for yourselves. at first the doctors told my parents i wouldn't make it to five years when we went to hospital they'd say what if you're still alive. but despite my body deep

inside i'm a worrier and i always wanted to die a different way not in a hospital ward no not because of this illness. at one time i saved money to hire a hitman to shoot me dead from the next building where the open window. even told my parents and my brother about it they were shocked at first of course but then somehow resigned. i told them that if i saved enough money there but and then changed my mind i'd give them all the money to renovate the apartment. and i can't think what you could possibly do to make my hair beautiful.